Invites GRW and his family to visit.
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Invites GRW and his family to visit.
Arrangements for Emma’s return to Down.
CD has been "wonderfully strong".
Asks if J. E. Gray has returned [printing] estimates for Zoology.
Henslow has some Galapagos plants which he forgot to forward to JDH.
Sends HD a reference to human lice from Charles White 1799.
Discusses intestinal worms among humans.
Comments on origin of human races.
Sends a quotation from de Vallemont’s Curiosities of nature and art in husbandry and gardening (1707) showing that the value of saltpetre in manure and the advantage of steeping seeds in specially prepared liquid manure were well known at the time.
About the researches of Ehrenberg. "I have … sent him several packets of objects from my voyage & that of Dr. Hooker".
Thanks for earth samples. Discusses Infusoria in samples from Galapagos and Cape Verde Islands. Would like samples from other sites. Will send further results of investigations.
Encloses letter from Ehrenberg [758] about Infusoria.
Intends to visit Kew.